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Tuesday, 16 August 2016

SharePoint
farm is one or collection of more servers connected through same configuration
database. You can configure on one server or you can divide the roles such WFE,
APP server, indexing or can define server for specific role.

Single
server deployment use only for development or evaluation purpose where we can
install everything on one server

2 tier
refers to database and Sharepoint server, where we can have one database server
to host the SQL server for Sharepoint databases and other server is used for
SharePoint.

3 tier
refer to WFE, Application server and Database server.

Service applications.

Service
applications provides specific functionality to web applications such as User
Profile service application (manage user profiles), Search service application,
manage Meta data service application, and excel etc. we can associate out
desire service application with Sharepoint web application. And each service
application contains the proxy which manage the connections to each association
or web application.

Web Application.

Web
application is upper boundary of implementation, SharePoint central
administration allows you to create new web application and IIS will host that
web application such as http://portal.eteam.local, one web application can contains
many site collections, which runs under same url, on web application level we
can define AAM alternate access mappings which enables multiple urls for one
application. Each web application have separate application pool in IIS.

Site collection.

Site
collection is nothing except the logical container inside the web application,
we can define multiple site collection under one web application and we have
option to separate content database for each site collection. Each site
collection have separate administration and permissions.

There is no
hierarchy between sites collections, each of them have separate. Each site
collection have its own security boundary

Top level sites and sub sites

When you
defines site collection, top level site is created, first site is known as top
level and rest of site are created under top level, it will maintain the
hierarchy, its built like a tree, you can carry the same permissions known as
inherit the permissions or you can break the permission for any site where ever
you want.

List and libraries

Under the
sites we have list and libraries to save the data, libraries refer to documents
and list refer to structured data in form of rows and columns. SharePoint
provides many types of lists and libraries such as task list, Announcements, Contacts, Discussion boards, Calendar, Project tasks, Issue
tracking and Survey etc.

SharePoint
Configuration database is created while you’re going to configure SharePoint
farm, it contains the information such as other Sharepoint databases, IIS Web
sites, Web applications, and Trusted or farm based solutions, web parts, and
site templates

Default named
as SharePoint_Config,

SharePoint Content Databases

All information
related to site collection is store in content database, information such as
All documents in document libraries, List data, web parts and their customization
or properties, user or sand box solutions,

Friday, 12 August 2016

SharePoint 2010 introduces new service application model,
which continues in Sharepoint 2013, Service application model is very flexible,

Host the required service application. If you need only search just configure search service application

At web application level service association is also very simple, associate your required service application with web application.

You can create multiple instance of service application.

Some service applications have their own one or more databases to save the configuration and other related data. Such as User profile have profile, synchronization, and social tagging databases

1)Business connectivity service application

Its enable to connect with external data
sources, you can perform CRUD and query operation on external data. To create
connection you can use Sharepoint designer and Visual studio (custom connector).

2)Manage Meta data service application This service application enables you to manage
taxonomy hierarchies, keywords, and social tagging features of SharePoint 2013.
You can create groups, term sets and terms.

3)Performance point service application

This services application or feature only
available in enterprise version of Sharepoint , it enable the BI features ,
performance point designer is free tool to create dashboard , scorecards charts
etc. and you can interact with Sharepoint lists, SQL server databases to create
the dashboards.

4)Search service application

Its enables the capabilities to crawl the
data based on sources you define in Sharepoint search configuration and it
index the data to respond the end user, search have following basic components
Search crawler, Content processing, Index , query .

Search application contains its own
databases

·Search administration DB

·Analytics reporting database DB

·Crawl Store DB

·Link DB

5)User Profile service application

Enable to fetch user profiles of the users,
you can use this data as User Profile hosting at my site, you can create audiences
which helpful to filter contents, you can Host my site and each can have its
own my site. Also provide the features related to social tagging and Notes.

User Profile service contains following
databases

·Profile DB

·Synchronization DB

·Social Tagging DB

6)Excel service

This service enable the interaction to
excel files using Browser.

7)Visio services

Its helps to view m interact and refreshing
the Visio diagram in browser.

8)Access services

Enable to interact with Access 2013 client
or using the browser to create, view edit operations.

9)Word automation services.

It used to view and edit the word documents
in browser and also used for document conversion.

10)App management service application

New Service application in Sharepoint 2013,
Manage the Apps for SharePoint internal App Catalog and Public Sharepoint
Store.

11)Machine translation service application

New Service application in SharePoint 2013,
Manage the Automatic translation for sites and contents.

12)Work automation service application

New service application in SharePoint 2013,
this service manage aggregation of Task for user at central location.

Thursday, 11 August 2016

SharePoint 2013 is consider to be new way of working together.
SharePoint in simple “Share Point “ Just divide into 2 words, its Point or
central location to share your ideas, moreover you can organize the contents, discover
(search) and manage the contents. Share the knowledge and distribute to other
personnel in teams and organization.

Its product with lot of features called out of the box features,
IT professional can manage the information based on customers’ requirements,
developers can extent the out of the box features and designer can build new
eye catching designs.

·New
authentication, classic mode authentication is no longer
available in Sharepoint 2013, only claim based authentication is available. And
there are lot improvements in it and allows server to server and app
authentication in Sharepoint 2013.

·Business
connectivity services provides a way to connect using oData,
previously only using web service (WCF), SQL and custom using .Net.

·Added new video content type to manage the videos. Easy to display videos on
the pages.

·Thumbnail
preview images are create automatically as you upload the video into Sharepoint
library.

·SharePoint 2013 allows you add iframe inside HTML field on the page.

·It allows you to create image rendition. Which
helps to show different sized images on different pages. Image Renditions feature is available under
the site settings

·Variations for multilingual sites SharePoint 2013 having a new service
called machine translation service.

·Cross site publishing manages the reuse
the contents across multiple site collections.

·SharePoint 2013 added new concept of Catalog enabled list and libraries, its
type of list storing information that can publish across the sites collections,
contents from catalog has been crawled and become part of search index and can
display using content search web part.

·Design
manager is new feature only for publishing sites in Sharepoint. You can
convert html design to Sharepoint master page. You can import & export design
package.

·Device
channels allow you to manage design for different devices by creating different
channels for different devices. By assigning different design to different channel.

·Office
web app, is now available as separate server and we can create office
web server as farm and need to do binding with Sharepoint server, at the same
time office web app can use with Lync and exchange.

·Fast
search is no more. Search architecture is changed and there
are lot enhancements in it please see the details for search service Sharepoint
2013.

·New
Workflow engine , there is new Sharepoint workflow engine
for Sharepoint 2013 build on base of windows workflow manger 4.5, if you
install Sharepoint 2013 and did not install and configure Sharepoint 2013
workflow manager you will only experience Sharepoint 2010 workflows which is
installed automatically with Sharepoint 2013.

·New
service applications

oApp Management service application is
new service application use to manage app available in form, permissions, and
app licenses

oMachine translation service
is new service application used for variation of sites and provide automated
translation of Sharepoint contents

oWork management service application is
new service application, Sharepoint 2013 provide great feature of single view
all assigned task to person, it integrate assigned task from sites , exchange and
project service.